i just ordered this (along with the rgb to scart lead for better pic quality until the new 1200 Indivision AGA flicker fixer comes out later this year early next) from amikit as i HATE the HD noise. bought a Blizzard 060@50Mhz a few years back for £130, which I thought was steep at the time, now they're near £500! even worse, the PPC 60's you're looking at nearly a grand! *faints*
what monitor is that you have hooked up to it? is it good quality?
the thing about LCD's is the cheap ones suck and the ones that don't suck cost a sh*tload. so .. is that good quality? i mean the image quality - not blurred, also viewing angle etc.
It's a PSOne official LCD monitor. The quality is pretty damn godo considerinG!
I have since updated the monitor with LED lighting instead of the tuvbe it comes with. Now its power consumption is ultra low, I could actually power it with a proper PC PSU through the Amiga ;)
I bought IDE/CF adapter for HD replacement and PCMCIA/CF adapter for data exchange between Amiga and PeeZee and also two 2GB CF cards. Oh, man, I'm so happy I won't hear that chainsaw noise from my HD. What capacity CF card you've got? Why do you use so small screen with your Amiga? Do you see anything on this?
I put inside a 2GB card, it's good enough for me (I used to have a 1GB hard drive in it)
The small screen is perfect for live usage, I take this baby to my live gigs and have to think about portability. I can perfectly see the tracker screen with it. At home, I usually connect it to a VGA monitor using Productivity mode. I will put a scandoubler in it soon ;)
I also use Protracker. I've composed some short rock/metal songs. Having contact with many other music tools also for PeeZee and PlayStation I think Amiga's PT is the best one. I hate sequencers. :)
@alex76gr Although this is true, what you find with the Amiga is that unless you have installed virtual memory and are constantly running programs that use loads of memory, then you're okay for years. 4gb on an amiga goes a long way. Problem with PC's is that people waste a lot of time and resources doing things they don't actually want to do. I do find that PC's make excellent databases though
@nicholasthetaylor I would also recommend the Microbotics XA-1230 accelerator, it's a cheap alternative to a Blizzard and very, very good. Mine works awesome.
@kikencorp Sounds brilliant! 50mhz 030, 60mhz 68882 fpu and up to 128mb ram. One thing I still don't know is how an 030 compares to an 060. Is there much difference?
@nicholasthetaylor Yeah the difference is big. Depending on what you want, 030 is usually more apt for all-round use and mild demowatching/heavy gaming. if you are way too into the demoscene and want to run fine all the latest demos, the 060 is necessary. I am more of a demo person but I cannot afford an 060 :/
i just ordered this (along with the rgb to scart lead for better pic quality until the new 1200 Indivision AGA flicker fixer comes out later this year early next) from amikit as i HATE the HD noise. bought a Blizzard 060@50Mhz a few years back for £130, which I thought was steep at the time, now they're near £500! even worse, the PPC 60's you're looking at nearly a grand! *faints*
diablothe2nd 3 months ago
you have such a small screen
Taking1n1 6 months ago
105th street (ahx ghetto mix)
Sick song goes hard big ups
Serial520 11 months ago
@Serial520 Thank you!
kikencorp 10 months ago
what monitor is that you have hooked up to it? is it good quality?
the thing about LCD's is the cheap ones suck and the ones that don't suck cost a sh*tload. so .. is that good quality? i mean the image quality - not blurred, also viewing angle etc.
aqhillie 2 years ago
It's a PSOne official LCD monitor. The quality is pretty damn godo considerinG!
I have since updated the monitor with LED lighting instead of the tuvbe it comes with. Now its power consumption is ultra low, I could actually power it with a proper PC PSU through the Amiga ;)
kikencorp 2 years ago
Put a car battery on it and you now have the worlds most impractical laptop.
richardmaudsley77 2 years ago 2
I lol'd.
LBpDC 1 year ago
I bought IDE/CF adapter for HD replacement and PCMCIA/CF adapter for data exchange between Amiga and PeeZee and also two 2GB CF cards. Oh, man, I'm so happy I won't hear that chainsaw noise from my HD. What capacity CF card you've got? Why do you use so small screen with your Amiga? Do you see anything on this?
Scumkill2 3 years ago
I put inside a 2GB card, it's good enough for me (I used to have a 1GB hard drive in it)
The small screen is perfect for live usage, I take this baby to my live gigs and have to think about portability. I can perfectly see the tracker screen with it. At home, I usually connect it to a VGA monitor using Productivity mode. I will put a scandoubler in it soon ;)
kikencorp 3 years ago
I also use Protracker. I've composed some short rock/metal songs. Having contact with many other music tools also for PeeZee and PlayStation I think Amiga's PT is the best one. I hate sequencers. :)
Scumkill2 3 years ago
Actually, I use AHX, not Protracker :)
kikencorp 3 years ago
CF drives have lower life period due to their limited number of times that they can be written. A hard disk is always the best solution.
alex76gr 3 years ago
I hardly write to it, I am putting my data elsewhere.
Most of the temp writes happen to the ramdisk anyway. This is an Amiga, it has no swapfile :)
kikencorp 3 years ago
@alex76gr Although this is true, what you find with the Amiga is that unless you have installed virtual memory and are constantly running programs that use loads of memory, then you're okay for years. 4gb on an amiga goes a long way. Problem with PC's is that people waste a lot of time and resources doing things they don't actually want to do. I do find that PC's make excellent databases though
nicholasthetaylor 1 year ago
I used too have an amiga I'm going too get one again I don't know shit about computers any tips cheers!
strawberryfields1982 3 years ago
@strawberryfields1982 Ihave been recommended these: Blizzard 1230 accelerator card - £100-150 EBay
Kickstart 3.1 ROM chips (A1200) - Amigakit.co.uk £16.99
4-Device Buffered IDE Interface (A1200/A600) - Amigakit.co.uk £13.99
2.5" IDE 2xCF Drive - versalia.de 14.99euros
Laptop CDR drive
Amiga OS3.5 CD
nicholasthetaylor 1 year ago
@nicholasthetaylor I would also recommend the Microbotics XA-1230 accelerator, it's a cheap alternative to a Blizzard and very, very good. Mine works awesome.
kikencorp 1 year ago
@kikencorp Sounds brilliant! 50mhz 030, 60mhz 68882 fpu and up to 128mb ram. One thing I still don't know is how an 030 compares to an 060. Is there much difference?
nicholasthetaylor 1 year ago
@nicholasthetaylor Yeah the difference is big. Depending on what you want, 030 is usually more apt for all-round use and mild demowatching/heavy gaming. if you are way too into the demoscene and want to run fine all the latest demos, the 060 is necessary. I am more of a demo person but I cannot afford an 060 :/
kikencorp 1 year ago